"I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me."

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Source : "Donna Shalala : The Administration's Point Woman at Health and Human Services". Interview with David Lauter, articles.latimes.com. July 18, 1993.

Donna Shalala

#People Quotes #Underestimate Quotes #Whole Life Quotes

“But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in a crowded theater.”
“Better a pink bottom than a black soul.”
“While Congress saw some need to loosen the standard in the initial days of a war, it wanted the president to comply with FISA in carrying out surveillance in the United States.”
“Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people.”
“Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.”
“This is why it is good to remember: if you want to get high, donâ€™t drink whiskey; read Shakespeare, Tennyson, Keats, Neruda, Hopkins, Millay, Whitman, aloud and let your body sing.”
“If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body. It nourishes and enlivens the higher man and urges him to produce the best he is capable of. It directs his freewill along the proper course and disciplines the animal in him into progressive channels. It furnishes an excellent background for man to display his scale of values and develop his personality.”
“People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength.”

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